J. S. Bach by Albert Schweitzer, in two volumes translated by Ernest Newman

Date added: 14/10/2016

J. S. Bach by Albert Schweitzer, in two volumes translated by Ernest Newman

Published by: Dover Publications Inc.

Published: August 2014

ISBN-10: 0486216314

ISBN-13: 978-0486216317

Independent of his international renown as a humanitarian, Albert Schweitzer is well known as a great musicologist; a reputation that rests largely upon this book. Schweitzer's "J. S. Bach" is one of the great full-length studies of the composer, his life, and his work.

Its influence on the subsequent performace of Bach's music was enormous, and there is scarcely a later work on Bach which does not acknowledge a deep debt to Schweitzer's. Grove's Dictionary says of the book, "Schweitzer has probably been more quoted than any authority since Spitta."

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